JPH07285649A - Article carrier - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] To enable smooth and stable transport of articles. A conveyor device 13 is installed on a carry-out section 12 of an article aligning device 11, a conveyor belt 20 of this conveyor device is arranged above a disk 15 of the article aligning device, and the conveyor belt 13 is arranged on the conveyor belt to convey articles. Spring 7
A magnet 23 for conveyance capable of adsorbing and holding is installed, and the above article is adsorbed and conveyed while maintaining its aligned posture.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an article carrying device for carrying an article provided with a magnetic material.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, a conventional article conveying device has an actual construction.
As described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 59-88020, one incorporated in an article aligning device has been proposed. In the article aligning device, a plurality of partition plates are formed on the outer peripheral portion of the inclined disc to form a plurality of pocket portions, and when a large number of articles are loaded on the disc rotating around the axis, these The articles slide down on the disk and are housed in the pockets one by one, thus aligning the articles.

The article conveying apparatus is installed in a housing (fixed wall) for accommodating the disks in the article arranging apparatus, and comprises a holding bar and a dropping chute.
The articles aligned on the disk are partially pushed by the holding bar at the discharge section of the article aligning apparatus and guided to the drop chute, and are conveyed to the next step through the chute.

[0004]

However, in the above-described article conveying apparatus, a large number of articles are jammed while the articles are being pressed by the pressing bar and guided to the chute, and there is a fear that the articles cannot be stably and smoothly conveyed. There is

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide an article transporting apparatus which can transport articles smoothly and stably.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an article transporting apparatus which transports articles, which are aligned in a certain direction on a moving plate of the aligning apparatus and which are provided with a magnetic material, from the aligning apparatus. , A conveyor device is installed in the carry-out section of the aligning device, the conveyor belt of the conveyor device is disposed above the moving plate so as to intersect, and the magnetic substance of the article can be adsorbed and held on the conveyor belt. Is installed, and the article is attracted and conveyed while maintaining its aligned posture.

The invention described in claim 2 is the same as claim 1
A plurality of magnets in the article transport device are installed on the conveyor at substantially the same pitch as the pitch of each article aligned on the moving plate of the aligning device, and the conveyor is synchronized with the moving speed of the moving plate. It has been moved.

Further, in the article aligning device according to the third aspect, a chute device is installed below the conveyor device, and the chute device separates the product attracted and held by the magnet of the conveyor device from the magnet. It is provided so as to be slidable.

[0009]

Therefore, according to the article transporting apparatus of the first aspect, the magnet provided on the conveyor belt of the conveyor unit attracts the articles aligned by the aligning apparatus without changing the alignment posture. Since it is configured to be taken out from the aligning device, the product can be sucked and held and reliably transported from the aligning device, so that the product is not jammed in the product transporting device and aligned in a certain direction. It is possible to stably and smoothly convey the articles.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the conveyor belt of the conveyor device is moved in synchronism with the moving speed of the moving plate of the aligning device, and the conveyor belt is moved by the aligning device. Since the plurality of magnets are installed at a pitch substantially the same as the pitch of the aligned articles, the articles aligned in a certain direction can be conveyed to the next step at a pitch substantially the same as the alignment pitch.

Further, according to the article conveying apparatus of the third aspect of the present invention, since the chute device for sliding the article apart from the magnet of the article aligning device is installed below the conveyor device, the article aligning apparatus is provided. The articles aligned in one direction by the device can be quickly conveyed to the next step.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of an article conveying apparatus according to the present invention together with an article aligning apparatus. Figure 2
It is sectional drawing which follows the II-II line of FIG. FIG. 3 (A) is a plan view of the article carrying device of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 (B) is a front view of the article carrying device. FIG. 4 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the article transport apparatus of FIG. 1 applied to an article alignment apparatus having a different configuration from the article alignment apparatus of FIG.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the article conveying apparatus 10 is installed in the carry-out section 12 of the article aligning apparatus 11,
It conveys the aligned articles 1 to the next step, and includes a conveyor device 13 and a chute device 14.

Here, the article 1 is an elongated article such as a pump cap or a spray cap. That is, the article 1 is one in which the cap 2 attached to the mouth portion of the container (not shown) is provided with the pump 3, the tube 4 extends from the pump 3, and the push portion 5 is installed at the opposite position. . When the pump cap or the spray cap as the article 1 is attached to the container, the push part 5 is pushed to operate the pump part 3 so as to suck the contents in the container from the tube 4 and the nozzle 6 of the push part 5. Discharge from. This pump part 3 has a push part 5
The spring 7 for returning the to the original position is built in. The spring 7 is generally made of a metal as a magnetic material, and is installed at a position eccentric from the longitudinal center of the article 1.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, in the article aligning device 11, the disk 15 as a moving plate is tilted so that the disk 15 is rotatable about a shaft 16 and the disk 15 is rotated. A plurality of aligning magnets 17 are installed on the outer periphery of 15 at a predetermined equal pitch. The disk 15 is further surrounded by a cylindrical guide wall 18.

When a large number of articles 1 are loaded from above the center of the disk 15, the articles 1 slide down during the rotation of the disk 15 and collide with the guide wall 18 to be stopped. Then, the cap 2 of the article 1 is locked to the step portion 19 of the circular plate 15, and the spring 7 of the article 1 is aligned with the alignment magnet 17.
Is adsorbed at. In addition, the article 1 that is not adsorbed is the disk 1
While moving upward by the rotation of 5, the disk 7 slides down again, and its spring 7 is eventually attracted to the alignment magnet 17.

Since the spring 7 of the article 1 is eccentric from the center of the article 1 in the longitudinal direction, the cap 2 of the article 1 is locked to the stepped portion 19 of the disk 15, and the spring 7 is aligned. When it is adsorbed in
Are properly aligned in a certain direction and are adsorbed and held by the disk 17.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, in the conveyor device 13 of the article conveying apparatus 10, the conveyor belt 20 is wound between the drive roller 21 and the driven roller 22 and is conveyed to the conveyor belt 20. Magnet 2
3 is embedded. The conveyor belt 20 is disposed movably so as to intersect above the disc 15 of the article aligning device 11, that is, in the tangential direction of the disc 15, and is synchronously moved at the same speed as the rotation speed of the disc 15. Configured to be possible.

The transport magnets 23 are arranged on the conveyor belt 20 at substantially the same pitch as the pitch of the alignment magnets 17 installed on the disk 15. Further, the carrying magnet 23 has a magnetic force that is about the same as or higher than the aligning magnet 17 of the article aligning device 11. Therefore, the article alignment device 1
The articles 1 adsorbed and held by the aligning magnet 17 on the circular plate 15 of No. 5 and aligned are the carrying magnets 2 of the conveyor 20.
3 makes it possible to adsorb while maintaining the aligned posture.

Further, the chute device 14 of the article conveying apparatus 10 comprises a scraping rod 24 and a guide plate 25, and is provided so as to extend from the carry-out section 12 of the article aligning apparatus 11 to the vicinity of the next step. The scraping rod 24 is composed of two upper and lower parts and sandwiches, for example, the pump portion 3 of the article 1 so that the article 1 can be slid. The tips 26 of the scraping rods 24 on the side of the carry-out section 12 are gradually expanded outward, and the articles 1 adsorbed at the same time by the aligning magnets 17 and the transport magnets 23 are removed between the two scraping rods 24. The article 1 is moved away from the aligning magnet 17 when being guided to.

The guide plate 25 has an L-shaped cross section and guides the cap 2 and the push portion 5 of the article 1 to stably hold the posture of the article 1. Article alignment device 11
The articles 1 attracted and aligned by the alignment magnet 17 of
The article conveying apparatus 10 is conveyed by being attracted to the conveying magnet 23 of the conveyor apparatus 13 and is separated from the aligning magnet 17 while sliding the scraping rod 24 of the chute apparatus 14, and thereafter, the scraping rod 24 and the guide plate. Two
5 is guided to the next step.

According to the above-described embodiment, the carrying magnets 23 provided on the conveyor belt 20 of the conveyor device 13 in the article carrying apparatus 10 change the alignment posture of the articles aligned by the article aligning apparatus 11. Since it is configured to be adsorbed and taken out from the article alignment device 11 without
Since the articles 1 can be sucked and held and reliably conveyed from the article aligning device 11, the articles 1 are not jammed as in the prior art during the conveyance, and the articles 1 aligned in a certain direction can be retained. It can be transported stably and smoothly.

The conveyor belt 20 of the conveyor device 13 is moved in synchronism with the rotation speed of the disk 15 of the article aligning device 11, and the conveyor belt 2
Since the plurality of transporting magnets 23 installed at 0 are provided at substantially the same pitch as the pitch of the aligning magnets 17 of the disk 15 in the article aligning device 11, the articles 1 aligned in a certain direction are aligned at an aligning pitch. Can be conveyed at substantially the same pitch.

A chute device 1 is provided below the conveyor device 13.
4 is installed, and the scraping rod 24 of the chute device 14 moves the articles 1 into the alignment magnets 17 of the article alignment device 11.
The articles 1 arranged in one direction by the article arranging device 11 can be quickly conveyed to the next step because they are separated from and slid.

As shown in FIG. 4, the article transporting apparatus 10 may be installed in another article aligning apparatus 30 different from the article aligning apparatus 11. That is, this article alignment device 3
In No. 0, the alignment magnet 17 is not installed on the outer peripheral portion of the disk 15, but a plurality of partition plates 31 are installed, and a pocket part that allows the articles 1 to be housed one by one by these adjacent partition plates 31. 32 is configured, and the articles 1 are aligned in the same manner as the above-described article alignment apparatus of the prior art. The article transport apparatus 10 is installed in the carry-out section 33 of the article alignment apparatus 30. The conveyor belt 20 in the conveyor device 13 of the article conveying apparatus 10 is set at substantially the same speed as the disc 15 of the article aligning apparatus 30, and the pitch of the conveying magnets 23 is set substantially the same as the pitch of the pocket portions 32. It

Therefore, also in this case, the article aligning device 30
The articles 1 housed in the pocket portions 32 one by one and aligned in a certain direction can be attracted by the transport magnets 23 of the article transport device 10 and can be quickly transported to the next process by the chute device 14.

In the above-described article conveying apparatus 10, the conveyor belt 20 is provided with a plurality of conveying magnets 23, but the conveyor belts arranged on the disk 15 side of the article aligning apparatuses 11 and 30 have been described. A magnet extending in the longitudinal direction of the conveyor belt 20 is fixed to the back surface of the conveyor belt 20, and the magnets 1 attract the articles 1 aligned by the article alignment devices 11 and 30 and guide them to the chute device 14. Good. Further, the article 11 may not have the magnetic substance built in from the beginning, but may have the magnetic substance embedded for alignment or transportation.

[0028]

As described above, according to the article carrying device of the present invention, articles can be carried smoothly and stably.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of an article conveying apparatus according to the present invention together with an article aligning apparatus.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line II-II in FIG.

FIG. 3 (A) is a plan view of the article carrying device of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 (B) is a front view of the article carrying device.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the article conveying apparatus of FIG. 1 applied to an article aligning apparatus having a different configuration from the article aligning apparatus of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCE CHARACTERISTICS 1 article 7 article spring 10 article transport device 11 article aligning device 12 carry-out section 13 conveyor device 14 chute device 15 disk 17 alignment magnet 20 conveyor belt 23 transport magnet 24 scraping rod 25 guide plate

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An article transporting apparatus for transporting articles, which are aligned in a certain direction on a moving plate of the aligning apparatus and provided with a magnetic material, from the aligning apparatus, wherein a conveyor device is installed at a carry-out section of the aligning apparatus. , The conveyor belt of this conveyor device is arranged to intersect above the moving plate, and a magnet capable of attracting and holding the magnetic substance of the article is installed on the conveyor belt, and the article is arranged in an aligned posture. An article transporting device that sucks and transports while maintaining the above. 2. A plurality of the magnets are installed on a conveyor belt at a pitch substantially the same as the pitch of the articles aligned on the moving plate of the aligning device, and the conveyor belt has a moving speed of the moving plate. The article conveying apparatus according to claim 1, which is moved in synchronization with the article conveying apparatus. 3. A chute device is installed below the conveyor device, and by this chute device, an article attracted and held by a magnet of an article aligning device is provided slidably apart from the magnet. Item conveying device according to item 1 or 2.